Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortunately, I identified it early. And furthermore, we enjoy a certain social position in the community. The name I am signing to this letter is not the one which appears on my business letterhead, as I use this one only in connection with an endeavor in which my "alter ego" is known. This is the first time I have ever written the facts of my little peculiarity for publication. Fortunately I was able to find out what had bitten me before it drove me into difficulties. Let us hope that the young man in Boston is not sent...
Nowhere could Senator Glass find that President Hoover was pledged never to try to alter the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act: "In the campaign the most he ever said was that he did 'not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment' but he nowhere has said that he might not advocate modification...
...only theirs, were adopted. Minority Leader John Nance Garner of Texas, under the rules, was permitted but a single motion. He moved to recommit the bill to the Ways & Means Committee with instructions to eliminate the flexible provision which gave new and enlarged powers to the President to alter duties. This issue was not Mr. Garner's own. It belonged primarily to Republican Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania who last fortnight had flayed the doubtful constitutionality of this provision (TIME, June 3). On the Garner motion the vote was 157 for recommittal. 254 against...
...unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout its entire history...
...York Times Current Events Contest which is in another column in this morning's CRIMSON shows that there is a sincere effort on the part of those in charge of it to make it a really significant affair. Although the changes are of minor importance and do not basically alter the nature of the competition, they do clearly indicate that the New York Times is taking more than a purely commercial interest in the enterprise...